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Porthos Range

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The Porthos Range is the second range south in the Prince Charles Mountains of Antarctica, extending for about 30 miles in an east-to-west direction between Scylla Glacier and Charybdis Glacier. First visited in December 1956 by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) southern party under W.G. Bewsher (1956-57) and named after Porthos, a character in Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers, the most popular book read on the southern journey.[1]

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  1. ^ "Porthos Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
  2. ^ "Mount Kerr". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  3. ^ "New bedrock geology of Mount Mervyn map sheet (106C/04) on Yukon".
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70°25′S 65°50′E / 70.417°S 65.833°E / -70.417; 65.833